Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she uses the scheme she stays at her desk whilst pupils queue for help , for marking or to find out what they should do next . |
| 2 | Dyson never caught the names of any of the others , or found out what they did , apart from drinking the company 's gin with a reassuring deftness . |
| 3 | On every woman Cara had ever seen one could do something to enhance what Nature had given , or cover up what had been left out . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's because he has n't learned to pace himself or to sort out what 's important and what is n't . |
| 5 | Quick satisfaction may be achieved but the resulting clarity fails to raise any interest in the process itself so that there is no desire to repeat the experience , analyse it or find out what others have been saying . |
| 6 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 7 | Or sent back what she sent us … |
| 8 | Or work out what I 'm doing here , maybe make a little , few little notes to yourself . |
| 9 | ‘ Not very good news , I 'm afraid , ’ she said and read out what George Wilson had written . |
| 10 | Mr Daniels , from Newton Abbot , Devon , who had been making poems up in his head , was helped by a voice synthesiser which ‘ spoke ’ each letter typed , and read back what he had written . |
| 11 | Go and be a hanger-on at Henry 's storehouses , and pick up what grain you can . |
| 12 | We thought perhaps we can use that as a goal standard , and pick up what actually happens with our project to compare the two . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you having a good meeting ? ’ , you know , and then of course all decisions involve human evaluations because a decision is a choice among alternative images of the future really and we evaluate these and pick out what we think is the best , obviously . |
| 14 | And one of the things that archaeologists do all their time is try by looking at the evidence , whether it 's stuff that comes from the ground , landscapes or old buildings , to try and understand the changes that have happened through time , to see things that were there that have gone , and to work out what |
| 15 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 16 | They might have had one and found out what it was going to cost and were decided against . |
| 17 | Last week for instance , we had somebody out on the motorway interviewing the site workers , but we also want to hear from people in the local communities , around Banbury , around Bicester , and found out what they feel about the motorway , because it 's going to have an enormous impact on the area . |
| 18 | The trade papers not only advocated that managers should take soundings but also practised it themselves and they always encouraged managers to have their own say and to pass on what they had learnt . |
| 19 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 20 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 21 | Use the forceful approach to get attention early on , and then move to this one to negotiate and to find out what rewards and pressures you can offer before returning to the forceful approach . |
| 22 | On Monday , May 31 , and Tuesday , June 1 there will be pottery workshops where visitors will be able to use genuine Roman techniques and designs to make their own Ante-fix ( and to find out what an Ante-fix is you will have to go along ) . |
| 23 | Fiver sat trembling and crying among the nettles as Hazel tried to reassure him and to find out what it could be that had suddenly driven him beside himself . |
| 24 | This is their opportunity to meet the others in the programme and to find out what they are doing , We will also be briefing participants on the latest pertinent developments outside the programme , as well as the latest administrative news . |
| 25 | The aim of this research is to evaluate how far these new courses are meeting their objective and to find out what lessons can be learned from them for engineering education in general . |
| 26 | You then move on and to find out what you actually can do . |
| 27 | It began gradually to peel off the brick skin and to find out what was underneath . |
| 28 | The women centre has served a vital need for the community over the last six or seven years , and if it closes down all that work is basically gone and all the support that we 've build up has gone , because basically there 'll be nowhere that women can go to socialise and to find out what 's going on in Oxford . |
| 29 | This means that those with more conventional tastes in hosiery ( and more substantial overheads ) are obliged to take ever-smaller profits while trying to stay ahead of the game and figure out what the next business-machine craze might turn out to be . |
| 30 | They now have a week off to review things and figure out what to do after Wednesday night debacle . |